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Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Nov. 14, 2022SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images In March, 1946, Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union asked if it could purchase Britain's most advanced jet engine, the Rolls-Royce Nene. The Second World War had only just ended, and Britain's new Labour government, though increasingly concerned about Stalin's actions, was still eager to co-operate with its former wartime partner. Britain was already offering to sell its world-leading, formerly top-secret engine to other…
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